kcmarshall

A Native American chef in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN is currently working to open just such a restaurant [1]. I've read a little about his menu and it does sound quite different from the euro-centric diet most Americans eat. This catering menu[2] seems more mainstream.

It will be interesting to see how he overcomes ingredient sourcing challenges. Many ingredients are far outside the current industrial food system. From the site: " We are naturally Gluten, Dairy, Soy, Processed Sugar, Beef, Pork, & Chicken FREE!" [1] http://sioux-chef.com/ [2] http://sioux-chef.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Sioux-Chef-...

The ACLU has apps that will send video to their servers/cloud. It doesn't appear that the video is streamed or uploaded until the users stops recording. https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct

Here's a nice example of a regional success story from MN. The area around Winona (a town on the Mississippi river between the Twin Cities and Rochester) has a growing cluster of businesses that work with composites. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/08/07/composites-winona

Kansas wants this kind of development but doesn't want to put priority on environmental protection, outdoor recreation or the arts. All are important to the Winona story - as is the presence of a state university in the town.

I'm an 'expat' Kansan who now lives in MN so I have a deep appreciation for the difference between the two.

Boeing has a new assembly site in South Carolina opened in 2011.

This is especially ironic (and painful) for Kansas since Boeing had been a major employer in the Wichita area for decades. It sold its Wichita Commercial Airplanes division to Spirit AeroSystems in the mid-2000s.

I interpret the article to be referring to parents of young children (e.g. identifying parent listeners via kid/nursery music). These parents may well be curating their non-kid music listening for their children.

That's what I did. When our kids were born, I wanted them to hear historically-significant popular music, not just the currently popular dreck. Think Motown or 80's Michael Jackson, not {fill in the blank with anything popular this minute}.

All of the stories in Bacigalupi's _The_Windup_Girl_ universe contain sub-plots about the 'Calorie Cartels' based in Iowa. Really good reading for a near-apocalyptic vision of a post-Oil, mid-climate crisis world. Full-on Trigger Warning for some of the sexual content in _The_Windup_Girl_ though.

I don't think you can over-emphasize the challenges in communication with off-shore teams. I have worked with several in corporate IT and just reaching a minimal baseline of understanding has proven difficult.

Some of this is basic talking and listening; phone conferences will suck! Think about your typical (dysfunctional) phone conf and then slash the quality of the phone line/Skype connection. Add in the variable accents of the offshore team. Their English is 1000% better than my command of their language: if I can't understand what they say and everything has to be repeated or translated by a co-worker, meetings slow to a crawl.

You will run into cultural differences in communication as well. The off shore folks want to do your work and they have the can-do attitude of most IT workers. They may indicate understanding when that isn't really the case. They aren't going to be able to casually wander by your desk and raise questions later so you are more likely to get stuck with their assumptions. This has happened even when we have brought off-shore developers to our offices for face to face meetings.

Finally, I have found that we are often unprepared to send work to a developer in a coherent manner. That will lead to rework, increased cost and even more communication overhead as you painfully hammer out your actual requirements.

The reliability problems and limited speed is a big concern. Do you know if CNS runs the network itself or if it out-sources the technical operation?

As far as the cable service goes, though, what you describe is what we have with Comcast. At least it was the last time we looked at it. Now we have Netflix and cut the cord with Comcast. That's the beauty of network neutrality - buy best of breed services from a focused provider. All I want from my cable company is a dumb, fast pipe.

Your point is well-made. Language is very important on religious websites. My church used an online directory from a commercial provider which had fairly obvious opinions about the appropriate mix of genders in a family. Their opinion was directly opposite that of our congregations and ultimately we dropped the system in favor of another.

Your demo page is slick. I was able to parse and inspect a couple files I had laying around locally. Toggling the header and typing options worked great.

Interesting side note: Here's a link to an Amazon review of _Dark Pools_. The review claims the name Brad Katsuyama and opens the review with "As an insider in the world of electronic trading..."

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2HRZNW5661QVR/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit...

Which suggests that take-home #0 should be: Don't build a pile of crap in-house framework.

Sniffing that out before too late is the tricky part...

Think "Market Capitalization" not "top" or "limit"

One key factor for business adoption of new technology is the availability of technologists with skills. If I can't find (many) developers and administrators who can install and maintain a noSQL server or developers who know what to do with it, I won't let it in my shop.

Anybody with a little experience in corporate IS/IT has probably encountered that app created by a developer who wanted to use the new shiny tech, did a half-ass job and then left the company. All the other devs hide when the app needs to be maintained or updated.

Managers also like to see formal training courses for new technologies to help less inquisitive and innovative developers get up to speed.

I think NoSQL databases are great new tools and I hope they make their way inside corporate firewalls. The broader supporting ecosystem will need to exist to support them though.

Since Malaria was a specific example, this headline caught my eye yesterday:

Web guru targets malaria with social network site http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080420/tc_nm/britain_malaria_dc...

I admit some skepticism but haven't read beyond the article. Maybe it is possible to "Facebook" malaria out of existence...